ssh42's comments

On: Singularity Is Near Full Documentary Michio Kaku – Ray Kurzweil

[ssh42]

fire and wheel as an example of technological progress (that came after biological). hmmm... Wheel came only 5-10 ths yeas ago and quickly propogated among Afro-Eurasia. ok. But fire? it came 1.5 mln years and fire were the reason of latest biological evolution of our species, with body able to support larger brain. not best example of fast technological progress.

[hordeallergy → ssh42]

The wheel barely penetrated Africa, parts not seeing it even as recently as a few hundred years.

[ssh42 → hordeallergy]

Probably different part of Africa we are talking about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_technology

On: The Nvidia DGX-1 Deep Learning Supercomputer in a Box

[ssh42]

already mentioned 16FP 170 TFLOPS (that is 64 FP 42.5TFLOPS) of DGX-1. There is also issue of GPU vs CPU: basically you couldn't directly compare these operations on same scale. You could easily drop 100x of your GPU performance at bad case scenario. Basic idea of GPU that you could possible gain sometimes extra 1000s times performance

On: Turkish Citizenship Database Leaked

[ssh42]

> The only thing that is missing is mother's maiden name.

It's extremely unsafe for known distribution of last names. E.g. in leaked db most frequent 12 last names correspond to 10% share of population, and most frequent 50 names "explain" 20% of population.